Chef Vivian had spent years honing her craft, building her reputation. She'd always been praised, coddled, admired. The words in the review slammed into her like a physical blow. She felt a wave of nausea wash over her. She stumbled back, needing the support of the countertop to remain upright. Her hands trembled, and she felt the blood draining from her face. The meticulously organized kitchen seemed to swirl around her, the familiar aromas now overwhelming.

Emotion: shocked

Cluster: Surprise / Confusion
PC1 (Valence): -2.19 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -0.65

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion shocked. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 shocked stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the shocked emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the shocked vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
будто0.298
😰0.268
sickening0.266
не0.266
que0.257
Suppressed:
enthusi-0.283
开心-0.269
ولة-0.262
ارك-0.257
উৎসাহিত-0.255